What are some of the basics you need to get started growing ? Equipment lists?
What’s the average turn-around from start to finish?
I’ve never grown mushrooms before; am very curious!
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I just started my first ever grow .
Golden teachers 
fingers crossed 
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I’d say a still air box is essential. Most fuck ups are down to contamination, and using a still air box greatly reduces the chances of that happening.
This guy does some useful videos…
I am a newbie, but I have tried to explain most of what you ask in my thread.
https://forum.autoflower.org/t/cubensis-mushrooms-for-medical-use/570/40
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Thank you @Teetee !
Check this site out: Mushroom Growing Guide by Shroomok
It’s where I’m doing my research.
Though I am doing an all-in-one bag with golden teacher. Supposed to be a good intro to it.
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You’ll need LOADS of 70% Isopropyl Alcohol. EVERYTHING needs to be sprayed with the stuff.
I started buying 1 Litre bottles, now I get 2x 5Litre containers full each time… actually works out much cheaper.
Believe me, you will go through this stuff quick!
I also wish I started by using all in one bags to get used to growing mushies, instead of going the whole hog and inoculating grainbags and making up monotubs… just to reduce the learning curve (and fuck up potential) a touch.
In terms of timing…
- Inoculation of grainbag to having a fully colonised grainbag = 4-5 weeks.
- Mix grainbag with substrate in monotub to having a fully colonised monotub = 3-4 weeks
- Fruiting of colonised monotub to harvest = 3-5 weeks
…bearing in mind this is my first go, and I haven’t yet harvested anything 
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I found a place in town that sells them, ate some hillbillies, threw up like exorcist, and then had the giggles. No visuals, but I only ate 2g.
They said it is comparable to golden teachers, so once those come in and get dehydrated, I’m thinking an eighth next time.
Question to the group…do you throw up when you eat some shroomiez?
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I used to when having them raw or whole. Now I grind 'em up and soak them in OJ for 15-45 mins and they go down smooth. You can use lemon juice instead, or coke aparrently and the technique is called ‘lemon tek’.
Lemon tekking does two things:
- it breaks down the fibrous chitin that can upset digestion.
- it converts psilocybin into psilocin before ingestion. This speeds up absorption, causing a faster onset, a more intense peak, and a shorter overall duration
It works well for me cos I do them 1-2x a week for my cluster headaches, and I can have them at 11pm, once the kids are in bed, be mildly peaking in less then an hour and be done in about 3-4 hours. In bed around 3-4am and up fresh as a daisy at 9-10am next day!
I do about 3g each time, but tolerance is a bitch, and Im not feeling as trippy these days on that 3g dose… but medicinally it does the job and keeps the cluster headaches away.
Yesterday, I had to deal with an ant invasion in my garage, I used a whole can of ant spray, which one sniff would usually trigger a world of pain for me… sure enough, I got the signs of some attacks (twitchy eye/side of nose, a couple of pulses in my temple, and a weird wave of something going on in my head… brain chemistry), but there was absolutely no pain… just the lightest cool sensation, where normally I’d be writhing around on the floor or with my head rammed into the sofa with a searing ice pick, fire burning, eye exploding, head crushing PAIN.
If it wasn’t for the mushies I would have ended up in hospital and on the fentanyl.
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Im a huge fan of grinding mushrooms into a powder and taking it as a shot with lemon juice
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Hey, I have been away for ages and saw the site has moved. I grew loads of mushies to help with depression and it really did help. It depends on what you are growing, to save lots and lots of faffing around I would recommend getting ready made grow bags which are available freely online. And a nice big clear box like the ones you get from teh big swedish store then you will need the spres which once again you can get freely online or on a mush site people are generally happy to trade. I use my inkbird that I use for growing and a heat mat to keep everything at a set temp of about 25.5 throughout. At one point I got right in to it making and prepping my own grain bags and using petri dishes with agar agar to make my own mycelium to inoculate teh bags but to be fair it is a big faff anf buying the ready mades really does make life easier and helps a lot with reducing contamination.
To start I would get a redy to go bag of substrate, 1 x 10ml syringe of spores, a big clear box from Ikea and off you go. Oh and dont forget the isoprop to keep things clean at all times. I used my old grow tent as their home
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I always recommend a good mister for fruiting.
This “hair” mister is probably one of the best for extremely fine atomized misting. I’d recommend using distilled water so you don’t clog it with minerals from tap water. If you pump the sprayer a couple times and keep going it will spray without stopping. Double action lever.
Flairosol continous mist:
It’s normally like ~$15 but it’s on PrimeDay sale for $8 right now: